Yes, that is true. Because when you get the connection from client you will get the IP address to where you have to ping willl be a message in the socket. you have to read the IP address which comes as a message, then from your server script you have to ping for the IP, then you print the appropriate message on the client.

  Server <- client
    |
  reads IP from Client.


Next process :-
Ping the IP.

Next process :-
  Server -> client
              |
         whether IP is pingable or not.
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